Re: Desperation = SRAM / Linear Flash Cards

Peter Frischknecht wrote:

>>From the first time I saw this project, I wanted to play with it. 
>Unfortunately, all I ever was able to do was get frustrated.
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>About 8 months ago, I was able to pick up 3x USR2450 APs on sale for
>$39.99 ea (they were retailing for $79.99).  I then scavenged ebay for
>the SRAM card needed.  I bough 3 different cards.  See the pics here:
>http://www.cdnworld.com/gallery/OpenAP
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I too did this... But 4x @ $49.99..  lucky you.  I got mine 14 months 
ago though.

>Before anybody makes a comment, I know that the SanDisk cards are not
>supposed to work.  But hey..I was desperate.
>
>As I uderstand, any of these 3 cards are supposed to work:
>Poqet - PC Storage Card - 2MB SRAM
>Viking - Linear Flash Card - 24MB
>Smart Modular Technologies - 8MB Flash Card (SM9FA4088IP3ASD)
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I purchased a SMT 8MB Flash probably much like yours.  It worked!  It 
took some time though.  I was using SuSE 8.2 I think at the time but I 
think I was rolling my own kernels and pcmcia-cs.  I'm running Gentoo 
now, I'm going to work on the USRs this weekend.  I'll tell you later 
what my pcmcia config looks like.

>I run SuSE 9.1 now, but I have never been able to make the cards work. 
>I have had Suse 8.2, 9.0, RH8.0, RH9.0, and Fedora1.  In between, I have
>messed up my PCMCIA subsystem time and time again trying to download and
>install it from source (pcmcia_cs).
>
>Under SuSE 9.1 (stock kernel 2.6), it says that memory_cs cannot be
>found.  It would seem that if I could download and install the pcmcia_cs
>package, that I would be able to make it work.  However, pcmcia_cs bombs
>during compilation.  Any hints...ideas?
>
>I am tired of trying aimlessly.  If anybody can help me, I would very
>much appreciate it.  A good link n a document that explains how to
>update pcmcia_cs would be great.  Otherwise, look for a for-sale post
>pretty soon.
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